It's been around for half a century and nobody knows about it. It's like a world wonder, a modern Library of Alexandria.
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IIRC, they'll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.
Also, for those that don't get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).
Not sure how known these are, but it's similar.
https://librivox.org/ public domain audio books
https://freemusicarchive.org/ free access to open licensed music
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To figure out what type of adhesive/glue you need to attach x material to y material
Learn how a computer works by building your own from scratch.
Considerably more user friendly than Escape from Robotropolis was for me.
Saving this for later! As someone who knows more about software than hardware, this sounds interesting!
http.cat
Been working in software engineering for 5 years now, I still look this site up basically any time I don't remember what an http code means
My new favorite 405 image
https://windows93.net/ - Some mad lad implemented a custom parody version of Windows 95 that has a bunch of working applications and emulators. Also, check out !internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works for a lot of similar sites.
I have loads of questions, like why does this exist, and why is there a fucking karaoke player with licensed tracks on this parody?
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this is my favorite regeneration.org a bunch of issues our world faces with all sorts of different solutions
If I tell you, then people will know about it, which is why I like it.
So tell us, then, so that you can like it even more!
Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/
Thanks for this. That site's dope.
I'm old. I was an adult when the internet first started. And this is the coolest thing I've ever seen online. Thanks for sharing!
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rotten.com
I’m not saying it’s the coolest, but I made a thing to scratch an itch that others may enjoy. I modeled it after something I found a few decades back that I never found again.
Forgot to mention it is available as a tui too. cargo install rhuidean-studio
Amazing, thanks 🙏🙏🙏
That was fun! 😁
Perfect 4th with linear velocity starts to cascade before they all reconverge with a big bleep. That was my favorite.
The craving of that big bleep is what got me to finally do this. It is so satisfying when they all converge. With multiple subdivisions and the convergence lines on, it is even better.
Oh that is cool! It makes stars and trippy fan blade patterns. It's neat you can share the link like that to share the patterns too.
It's like a kaleidoscope that also works for the ears. 😁
I have absolutely no idea what this is or what it's supposed to do but it's incredibly fun to poke at
Kinda reminds me of strudel repl
It’s like a completely different way to create music (even though, idk if OP intended was that)
Okay that’s ridiculously cool lol
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https://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
A free text-based RPG browser game with a unique sense of absurdist humor.
Lol. I haven't seen this since '98.
AFAIK there was a company producing a similar real product about 5-10 years ago.
Yeah I love that it had a certain amount of credibility when released, mainly from the professional look of the page. But actually the implementability has increased over time with tech.
Yet it hasn't really lead to a cybersex revolution yet. My prediction at the time that something like this would definitely materialize in the next 25 years.
What do you mean? Teledildonics is very real. There's a lot of integration with SecondLife, but I certainly wouldn't know anything about that.
if the moon were only one pixel
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
gives a better idea of how ridiculously vast the solar system and outer space actually is--if you turn on "scroll at light speed" it feels slow at these distances
It’s always fun to scroll, scroll, scroll, and then tap the light speed button in the lower right corner.
It was a bunch of GPL interactive Flash Animations.
Very creative/organic for the time. Pre DotCom crash.
Weird Stuff/Age Regression
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I don't recommend it now because it feels like a bunch of genAI stories are getting posted without seemingly any push back, but I used to enjoy finding some high quality stories on a site called ARArchive ( ararchive.com ).
The current modern site is a boring blue and white website. Replace the "www" with "old" and you get their old site/forums which was so much more lovely looking. Also, because of the forum type part of the site, alongside other features, was a bigger website.
The site itself, modern and old, contain stories centered around physical and/or mental age regression. Stories like "Boomerang" from OldStories, which is like a 4 chapter story about the misfortunes of a high schooler who gets physically regressed to 2 years old in a scenario where one day all 14-18 year olds in North America suddenly regress between 2-4 years old.
Or another favorite of mine: The Family by sumner. Follows a journalist who gets lost and has cat troubles but ends up in a town with a dark secret. Won't spoil anything past the description and very beginning of the story. 5 chapters and an interesting enough premise once you read more into it.
Never seen b3ta mentioned in the wild. The Question Of The Week archive has some belters
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